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Sentenced to death at 17 by an all-white southern jury, Lewis Pearson, an African-American blind from childhood, defies impossible odds and escapes death row. Abandoned by his escape partner, he meets and cuts a deal with Cob, a grizzled hobo, to help build Cob a house in exchange for help on the run.Relentlessly pursued by a savage bounty hunter, the unlikely pair arrive at Cob's dream town in a remote corner of New Mexico, where Lewis finds more than just safety-he finds love.Lewis comes to the edge of his odds-and of his conscience. His sister sets the stage for him to face both his victim's wife, Louella Cheney, and the Law.Lewis must decide if human redemption is one impossibility too far-or something for which he will risk life-and almost certainly, death. Chuck Barrett Chuck Barrett writes fiction, commentary and poetry. His columns appeared in the Las Cruces Sun-News, 2015-2019 and his commentary letters have frequently appeared on the pages of the Arizona Daily Star in 2025.A lifelong activist, Chuck worked as a volunteer death row visitor, founder and director of prison alternatives programs and as staff with Farm Labor Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers. He spent the last 12 years of his working career helping smallholder indigenous communities in Mexico, including projects in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Xilitla, Chihuahua and the Tarahumara communities.A formerly competitive Senior Olympics cyclist and trombonist, Chuck lives with his artist spouse, Melody Sears, and his lab mix dog, Stormy, in Tucson, Arizona.